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Must read. Our take of incoming elections in Chile: Extremist candidate José Antonio Kast seems best placed to take advantage of the fragmentation and shift to the right in Chilean politics - by @juan_elman
Right-wing Stalinists and hydroponic lettuce: Inside Chile’s pivotal election bit.ly/4qOJdka | read more ⤵️
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If you recognise the abuse in this article, if you believe you were also a victim, or if you were a victim of non-recent CSA in British army run schools, please email me at the address at the end of the article.
openDemocracy uncovers missed evidence in British Army child sex abuse case bit.ly/4l5be2T | read more ⤵️
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Funny that this guy is now (genuinely) the voice of reason and decency in the Tory party lol
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I'm writing a piece about the Greens, @ZackPolanski's leadership bid, and why the party is underperforming
Keen to chat with anyone who has thoughts, particularly Green members/activists
#BackZack
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Friend & journalism colleague Joakim Medin has been detained on arriving in Turkey etc.se/kommentar/dagens-etc-…
Please RT
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EXCLUSIVE
George Cottrell is a close associate of Farage who's used his connections to raise £Ms. He's also a convicted fraudster.
Now with Reform on a fundraising push he's set up a shadowy new firm which corruption experts say raises "real red flags"
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🗣️"The benefits system isn't just some pipeline into the world of work – it's a vital piece of social infrastructure that protects us from the sharpest edge of our unequal society."
After #PMQs, our campaigner Mikey wrote about the upcoming green paper👇opendemocracy.net/en/keir-st…
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🚨Exclusive🚨
The CEO of Blackstone, whose pay topped $1bn(!) last year, personally lobbied the Chancellor over non-dom tax rules just weeks before she announced plans to soften the policy
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Reform UK took £281k in donations in Q4, including:
- £100k from financier Roger Nagiof (formerly of Lehman Bros)
- £50k from financial services firm JB Drax Honore
- £25k from RMB Associates - owned by Tory donor Robin Birley
The anti-establishment party, everyone
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Government appointment rules are supposed to ban former Spads from lobbying govenrment for at least a year... but are the rules fit for purpose?
More than a third of all spads who left government in July now work in lobbying and adjacent roles
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Really important piece here by my colleague @sianushka
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Escribí sobre #Trump y #Guantánamo - antes, ahora y siempre @openDemocracy opendemocracy.net/es/guant%C…
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For 40 years Iain Anderson was a true-blue Tory. His lobbying firm has repped some of the City’s biggest banks. He even backed Liz Truss
But after switching his support to Labour before the election, he’s now got a job in Starmer’s government
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Humanitarian workers in Europe, Latin America and Africa tell @openDemocracy about the impact of Trump’s attack on @USAID
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Government-by-lobbyist latest:
A Treasury minister today held a call with over 700 lobbyists, including reps of arms firms, banks, oil giants and more.
They all have a 'huge and important role' in the government's plans, according to the minister.
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EXCL: Labour MP who worked as a lobbyist in the City of London until the election met with former colleagues before calling for pro-City policies in parliament
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Just going to post this six month investigation I did on child sexual abuse in the British military, apropos of nothing.
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🔴NEW🔴 I did a deep dive into Musk's disinformation campaign about grooming gangs for
@openDemocracy
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Please read it, I have had to look at a LOT of far right content so make it worth it 🤪
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🔴NEW🔴 MEPs have raised questions in the European Parliament about EU funding of an anti-abortion organisation that compared abortion to the Holocaust, following openDemocracy investigation:
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By me for @openDemocracy
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For 22 years, "Jessica" waited for justice after reporting child sexual abuse while a military dependent, from a military dependent, in my long-read investigation into child sexual abuse in the British armed forces.
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